The death in Toronto has been announced of the distinguished scholarProf. A.K.Warder. A funeral service for him and for his wife Nargezwill take place at 11 a.m. on Friday 15 February 2013, at Turner &Porter Funeral Home, 2357 Bloor Street, West, Toronto (viewing from10.00 a.m.); with interment afterwards at St. John's Dixie Cemetery,737 Dundas Street East, Mississauga, Ontario.

Prof. Warder, a graduate of the University of London, taught for manyyears at the University of Toronto. As Chairman of the Department ofEast Asian Studies during a formative period, he built up a strongprogramme in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, which for some yearsexisted as a separate Department. A very learned scholar, he is bestknown for his Indian Buddhism (1st pub. 1970; 3rd revised edition,Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000) and for his monumental 8-volumestudy of Indian KÄvya Literature (Motilal Banarsidass, 1972-2011). Aswell as other books on Buddhism, Indian philosophy and Indianliterature, he also wrote an Introduction to Pali (Pali Text Society,1963; 3rd revised edition, 2005), and Pali Metre: A Contribution tothe History of Indian Literature (Pali Text Society, 1967); and he wasactive for some years in the affairs of the Pali Text Society. Avolume of studies in his honour was edited by Profs. N.K.Wagle andF.Watanabe (1993).

David WaterhouseUniversity of Toronto

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Dear colleagues, It is my painful task to convey the message that Professor A.K. Warder has passed away. We all know his extensive contribution to Indological scholarship such as his monumental 8-volume study of Indian Kāvya Literature (Motilal Banarsidass, 1972-2011), his well known Indian Buddhism (1st pub. 1970; 3rd revised edition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000), as well as his other books on Buddhism, Indian philosophy and Indian literature, not to mention his first two books Pali Metre: A Contribution to the History of Indian Literature (Pali Text Society, 1967) and Introduction to Pali (Pali Text Society, 1963; 3rd revised edition, 2005).

A funeral service for him and for his wife Nargez will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday 15 February 2013, at Turner & Porter Funeral Home, 2357 Bloor Street, West, Toronto (viewing from 10.00 a.m.); with interment afterwards at St. John's Dixie Cemetery, 737 Dundas Street East, Mississauga, Ontario.

Stella Sandahl

-- Professor Stella Sandahl Department of East Asian Studies 130 St. George St. room 14087 Toronto, ON M5S 3H1

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

His study of Pali prosody in "Pali metre" is just formidable. Unfortunately this book is extremely rarely studied and his approach to dating of Pali verses based on their metres is largely forgotten. In general, from his books it seems that Professor A.K. Warder was a personality very good at seeing a bigger picture, at reconstructing it from a variety of details. His "Indian Kavya Literature" is another book (actually, 8 volumes) of this kind.